Recipe, HOME

I haven't had fried chicken in years. Caleb & I make a healthy oven baked GF version with GF panko (the recipe of which I will also put up here at some point), but we tend to not make the real stuff because it's so unhealthy, until last week when we had a serious craving...

I'd been dreaming about it for a while and so had he, so we spent a while texting about creating something great and of course the kind of texture we wanted for the coating. I obviously suggested Southern Fried (because it's the best), so Caleb said he would come up with a recipe that would be as close to that as he could get. Whenever I ate fried chicken growing up (which was rare) I would tend to just peel off the coating and leave the chicken; mostly because I'm very picky about chicken meat, but also because, let's be honest, the coating is the best and most important piece. And that was our aim.

So...here's our recipe for GF Fried Chicken - that you can of course modify to your liking. I've also put in a recipe for some Chipotle Aioli that Caleb made to go with our food. That day we also used our T-Fal Actifry to give us low calorie chips/fries to go with our beige dinner - as if we cared about calories (!) and they turned out beautifully!

London, UK

The second half of my recent trip to the UK was spent in London. I managed to actually spend some time with my nephew, Max (which is quite hard to do when he lives over an ocean), and I got to spend some time with Caleb doing, well, not a lot.

We stayed in Camden as I quite like it there, although it didn't occur to me that it was the beginning of the summer holidays in England, so it was even more crazy than usual. Which was fine, we just had to take the back roads so we could actually walk to places.

Southampton, UK

I recently spent 9 days in England and I ate... a lot of food. And I mean a lot. I've had to break it down into three posts; which I'm just going to say is normal and hopefully you won't think about the volume of items I consumed...

I started my trip with a visit to Southampton. None of you will be aware (because why would you?), but I lived in Southampton for 8 years. I went to the University of Southampton and loved the city so much I ended up just staying. My parents could never figure out why, but it was mostly the people and the groups that felt like family that kept me there. A few months back a group was created on Facebook for a club that had shut down about 10 years ago (and that I had gone to religiously for a few years) and a reunion night was planned - so I obviously had to go. I stayed with three friends (Soraya, Rosie and Brombley) whilst on my trip and this is a breakdown of the many items I ate when I was in their company. I didn't document every meal - otherwise this blog would be a novel, but here are some of the items I enjoyed.